Richard Farnsworth

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁴⁴ Richard Farnsworth was born in Eccles, Farnworth, Lancashire, England about 1584. He married 12 Jan 1608 at Eccles to Elizabethe Marshe. Elizaethe was born 1 Nov 1584 at Eccles, and was the daughter of Jacobes and Alicia (Hey) Marshe. Matthias, a brother and three sisters are the only known children of Richard and Elizabeth. Therefor Matthias was probably not a brother of the early Farnsworth immigrants, Joseph and Thomas. The relationship between the three remains unknown. There children were:

1) Alizia, b. 25 Feb 1610, Prestwick, Lancashire, England
2) Jonathon, b. 2 Aug 1612, Prestwick, Lancashire, England
3) Matthias, baptized, 20 July 1615 at Eccles, Lancashire, England
4) Mary, b. 8 Nov 1618 at Eccles, Lancashire, England
5) Hester, b. 28 Oct 1621 at Eccles, Lancashire, England

Richard married Elizabeth Marshe, daughter of Jacobes (James) Marshe and Alicia Hey. (Elizabeth Marshe was born on 1 Nov 1584 in Eccles, Lancashire, England ¹⁴⁴, christened in Eccles, Lancashire, England, died in Eccles, Lancashire, England and was buried on 9 Jun 1623 in Eccles, Lancashire, England.)